Farm Fresh to You

Cooking is my new hobby. I used to think I couldn't cook--and I couldn't cook because I didn't take the time to learn. So I started cooking the quick recipes in the back of Cooking Light. I have had great luck with recipes and in fact for quite a few years I wouldn't cook without a recipe. I still love Cooking Light and use it but I've expanded my repertoire. Epicurious.com is great-you can put ingredients into the search field and find recipes to make what you have.
In order to keep pushing myself as a cook I signed up to receive fruits and vegetables delivered to my doorstep form Farm Fresh to You. We get vegetables I have heard of but never bought like acorn squash and swiss chard and dinosaur kale. And we receive vegetables I've never heard of or seen like romanesco.
I made a YUMMY soup last night with NO RECIPE :)
About 3 TBS of coriander and cumin
1 tsp dill
2 bay leaves
1/2 tsp cinnamon
head of celery
3 white onions
About 10 organic carrots
About 10 baby red potatoes (use any potato peeled and coarsely chopped_
2 packages of Aidell's sausage (use any smoked sausage or ham)
Bunch of dinosaur kale (or any hearty leafy green)
2 cans diced tomatoes
2 cans white beans
Bag of dried beans rinsed and boiled
A few cans of broth until it looked right to me
Salt and pepper to taste

Follow instructions to prepare dried beans
Sautee celery and onions with herbs and olive oil until soft in large dutch oven
Puree white beans with enough broth to get it out of the blender, then pour the puree into the dutch oven
Slice carrots and sausage
Add rest of ingredients to dutch oven and let simmer for a couple of hours
Remove bay leaves
Salt and pepper to taste

More to come as I explore the joys of cooking for friends and family with new ingredients.